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Cut my grass a few days ago. It's growing like the clappers. Just finished painting out the new loo today. For some reason both Mrs Col and me were 'knocked daft' by the primer I used on some new timber. That's all gone now. Undercoated it all yesterday and a coat of gloss today.. though Mrs Col decided to dip out and go to her sisters while I did the work. Won't get much time here on Thurs as I have a dentist's appt. to look at doing summat with the tooth I had the abscess on a few weeks back. Also, Thurs night 21st, I'm going to see Professor Brian Cox,

Ben and Trogg. I'm in Nottm Thurs 7th March for an evening meeting with frends. I can be in Boowul Wethies Friday morning 8th., before heading home. Would be great to see you both again. All others welcome obviously. Col

Turn off the location stuff on yer phone. I imagine.. with little evidence, that 'yer phone' is finding your location mostly from your nearest mobile mast. The things are everywhere. No need for your phone to have a direct connection to a satellite.

Time for more 'Minutiae'. Sadly, I don't have pictures. And I may have related this before but I can't recall.. it's an age thing... As we looked out from our house on Southglade and over towards Rigley's we saw a hollow meadow , leading to a steep bank. That bank led up to a flat area created by Rigleys Wagon Works, as a storage area for assorted rail rolling stock which they serviced, repaired or scrapped. It was essentially a large private set of rail sidings. I think I've already described how one tree, growing from the base of the Leen Valley Line and the 'Rigley's Bank',

'Second star to the right and straight on till morning..' (Actually.. being a bit of a namby pamby Snowflake, I prefer 'second star to the left..', but it's no biggy...)

Nobody said the job was in Cognito. Too far for me to travel I'm afraid .

Map here: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.0451275,-1.2044131,972m/data=!3m1!1e3 Carlingford Rd leading to what is now called 'Linby Walk' I suspect it's the old Black Pad that I used to walk up to get to Linby when I was at mining college and attached to Linby Colliery. 'Linby Walk' now leads to a newish looking industrial area which could well be on the site of the old Linby Colliery, though it seems to go under the railway and I don't recall that. A long time ago. 1965.

So. feeling pretty enthusiastic after getting past tooth abscesses etc., I agreed to go for a walk with next door neighbour. We set off up Billinge Hill and over the other side via assorted footpaths ending up at a little place called Pimbo. There's a Garden Centre there where we had a quick coffee before heading back by a slightly different route, again across country and back home. A total of about 8 miles and my 'Samsung Health App' was congratulating me on my biggest daily step total for a while. Trouble is, from about halfway on the outward walk, my legs were beginning to gi

Dunno.. but sharps disposal is essentially a personal and public health issue which ought to be legislated for and funded equally nationwide. It shouldn't be down to variously loaded and variously local Councils.

Hmm.. MRI.. good point. I must look into it once I've saved my £20k....

I sympathise Carni. To use the correct medical terminology, my teeth have always been crap. I've always brushed and flossed regularly. I visit the dentist regularly too, yet my teeth just continue to crumble. Thing is I dread the thought of any type of denture and will endure anything or any cost (within reason) to keep them for as long as possible. If I had a spare £20k or so, I'd get a nice new gob full of implants and veneers, but that's unlikely to happen.

I must be seriously under evolved. I had two massive 'wisdom teeth' under the back molars on both sides of my lower jaw. Only one of them made any attempt at erupting and even that failed, making trouble for years. The other three were finally diagnosed as being the cause of constant vague jaw pain. I finally had all four removed in hospital. They removed them by chiselling out the side of my lower jaw and taking them out from under the existing teeth. While they were at it they removed two other teeth from my upper jaw, one of which was the cause of much pain and had roots bent outwards

Well the joyousness is that after 'curing' an 'Abscessed' tooth with a course of Metronidazole and the accompanying enforced abstinence, I enjoyed two days of normality and a further visit to my dentist who has referred me to a specialist to have the whole tooth re-done. Renewal of older root canal treatment followed by crowning, at considerable expense. Still waiting for that. Two days later an adjacant tooth collapsed and was filled on a temporary bais awaiting outcome of the specialist root canal treatment. Then.... on Saturady last.. the abscessed tooth fell apart, sheddiing its current cr

Don't worry about it Carni.. All the best people on here have been accused of making very long posts containing nothing of substance... Col

Well yes, it has been the council's responsibility to see that waste is disposed of pretty much forever. ( Though how they approach this varies.. a lot.) I also bow to your personal experience re: methods concerning Medical Waste/Sharps. I did make it clear that I have no direct experience of this. However there is no doubt that both the NHS and Local Councils are under extreme pressure to provide more services and deal with more 'stuff', in the context of a real terms cut in funding which is entirely deliberate and down to central Govt. This is what I was getting at. I would b

On a more (or less?) cheery note.. Good covering of snow here. I'll clear the paths later.. fancy a bit of egg and bacon for lunch... mmmm

Not something I have direct experience of, but I suspect that this may be yet another case of the Local Council having something dropped on it from above (I.E. Central Govt or poss NHS/NICE) and then getting all the blame for something outside its control. Exactly the same happening with areas such as highways, general waste disposal, social care and many other things. All a result of the combination of cuts in funding and Govt. dumping more responsibility onto Local Councils, forcing them to try to do more with less. Got the above from here: https://www.nhs.uk/common-h

I was secretly hoping that at least half of the Cavern Club Beatles would miraculously turn up at the venue and give an impromptu performance.. but sadly.....

He couldn't make it.

I thought a load of 60's stuff ( Motown, Soul, 'Northern', 'Beat Groups' etc on playlists would work and to be fair to him my DJ mate rolled with it... but it didn't really come off. Decent music for background early on.. but when the 'chips were down' later in the evening.. the only thing which got them up and dancing was the old 'cheese'. Very difficult to inspire an audience ranging from 4 yrs to 80 plu. Even I succumbed to 'New York New York', despite being a confirmrd non dancer. My playlists are all on Deezer. i can share them if anyone's interested, but I think you can

Hi all. Can you see my photo now? My actual Birthday isn't until next Sunday. .. 3rd Feb. Sadly, it's also the 60th aniversary of the death of Buddy Holly.. I share your misgivings Lizzie. Having never had a party for just little old me in my whole life.. I decided it was about time. Mostly, I just wanted my friends and relatives to share in a celebration. But by the time I was well 'into' the arrangements I was getting pretty stressed. For one I convinced myself that even though I'd checked the dates.. several times.. I was going to turn up at the venue only t

Check this out!! Had my 70th Party last night (Saturday) in Beautiful Billinge. I'm not quite 70 yet.. About 90 people turned up which is not bad for a bloke with few surviving relatives and no mates.!! Nine relatives plus a few friends from Nottm, most of my neighbours, about a dozen or so former colleagues and assorted relatives from Mrs Col's side plus a few 'hanger's on'. The fab cake was down to Vicki, my oldest. It also tastes fab and I'm not really much of cake eater.. Youngest..Steph, organised decorations and the usual

Awww thanks....

Only just seen this. I was on Southglade from around 1951 and your recall is very similar to mine. The Farmer Goddard I knew was Gervaise (Pronounced 'Jarvis') Goddard, commonly known as 'Jarve', or 'Run lads.. he's coming!!' As for the 'Camp', yes I'm told it was a P.O.W. camp for Italians. We just decribed that area as 'camp'. We went there mainly either for sledging in winter, which was pretty dangerous with all those brick footings about, or to get to the 'Spinney, which existed between the top of 'Camp' and Padstow School.

I don't keep eggs in the fridge. I find that it makes them too cold and they tend to spit when fried 'as is', or in omelettes. Also the yolk can end up still cold or underdone, even in boiled or pached eggs. I just keep them in a cupboard and use them well within date.